true to the canon, i want jim to be this like brilliant scholar who writes papers and does absurd math problems and shit when he's not blowing things up and/or flirting with sherlock
Seconded, vehemently. From the whole 'Jim from IT' thing I somehow assumed he was a genius with computers as well as maths (and if I were only good at either of those things myself I'd be so tempted to write it, but I'm not and I'd get it all wrong.) Someone pls write this?
Fill 1/? - Zero Sum Game
anonymous
July 6 2011, 21:52:03 UTC
Right, here we go. I hope this turns out something like what you wanted, OP... The branch of mathematics in which Jim is working here is called category theory. a!a is happy to define/explain terms and concepts, if desired.
James Moriarty cares about three things: mathematics, the game, and understanding what makes Sherlock Holmes tick. When he can combine two of those things - glorious. When he can combine all three
( ... )
Fill 2a/? - Zero Sum Game
anonymous
July 7 2011, 02:19:18 UTC
They insinuated to him once, when he was very young, that the duty of a professor was to teach. He was given a class, a horde of gaping simpletons in their first year at his small university, and he stood in front of them and surveyed them in silence.
Idiots, every one. He didn’t even need to lecture to know that.
“Tell me,” he said, “about the use of the conic section in determining the dynamics of the orbit of an asteroid.”
They stared.
“Tell me,” he said, making it easier, giving them questions he could answer in his childhood schoolroom, “about the generalization of the binomial theorem to powers of sums with n terms.”
They stared.
He slammed his hand down on the lectern. “Tell me,” he shouted, “why I should stand here and give you knowledge, just give it to you as if it were something you deserved, while every minute I spend in this room is one I don’t spend doing something interestingHe didn’t lecture again. It appeared for a brief while as though they might take away his appointment, but then he published the book
( ... )
Re: Fill 2a/? - Zero Sum Game
anonymous
July 8 2011, 14:22:54 UTC
He likes a very different kind of respect, the kind that shows itself in the tremor of a voice, inching out the words it wasn’t made to say. The kind that speaks to thick veins of adrenaline, running lightning-quick beneath the surface map of neurons. The kind that chokes and pleads and struggles, all those quintessentially human responses, all those things that are so messy and distasteful, and yet, at the same time, so delightful to control.
That is delightfully creepy, and spot-on in character, as well.
Fill 2b/? - Zero Sum Game
anonymous
July 7 2011, 02:21:32 UTC
Professor Moriarty publishes mathematical discourses, moving more and more these days into the realm of computational psychology as Jim tries to decipher Sherlock’s brain.
Jim publishes his newest findings in the field of Sherlock, writing them across the skin and bones and blood of victim after victim, emblazoning them on the ravaged skyline when the emotions roiling in his head are too much for a murder, and a bomb and shock and flare of brutal orange fire are needed to scream his latest anger to the skies. On those days, Professor Moriarty never has a chance.
But even Jim will not forget his roots, and so the name of Moriarty has two meanings. One is the quiet mathematician who submits elegant proofs with strange, subtle, hinting titles and hidden twists of words, all there for Sherlock to find, if only he ever looks. And how delicious, thinks the other Moriarty, Jim, when Sherlock finally discovers all the deaths that could have been prevented with a brief glance at the newest articles in the Acta Numerica, the tiny flaws,
( ... )
Re: Fill 2b/? - Zero Sum Game
anonymous
July 7 2011, 05:34:16 UTC
oh my god this is so perfect and so precisely what i wanted, i am actually salivating. i'm going to go quit my job and sever all ties with human life so i can just sit here and hit refresh with no interruption for the remainder of the week. basically, this is amazing and you're amazing and i'm so excited for it to continue.
Fill 3/? - Zero Sum Game
anonymous
July 7 2011, 23:28:22 UTC
Sebastian brings him John.
That night, Jim is raving, psychopath is nothing to this level of insanity, but he is writing, numbers and symbols flowing from his pen like dark blood for a darker code. He barely spares Sebastian a glance, John even less of one, and both are tossed aside in the wake of Moriarty’s mathematical inspiration. Later, all of that can be for later, nothing matters right now but the problem
( ... )
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The branch of mathematics in which Jim is working here is called category theory. a!a is happy to define/explain terms and concepts, if desired.
James Moriarty cares about three things: mathematics, the game, and understanding what makes Sherlock Holmes tick.
When he can combine two of those things - glorious. When he can combine all three ( ... )
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Idiots, every one. He didn’t even need to lecture to know that.
“Tell me,” he said, “about the use of the conic section in determining the dynamics of the orbit of an asteroid.”
They stared.
“Tell me,” he said, making it easier, giving them questions he could answer in his childhood schoolroom, “about the generalization of the binomial theorem to powers of sums with n terms.”
They stared.
He slammed his hand down on the lectern. “Tell me,” he shouted, “why I should stand here and give you knowledge, just give it to you as if it were something you deserved, while every minute I spend in this room is one I don’t spend doing something interestingHe didn’t lecture again. It appeared for a brief while as though they might take away his appointment, but then he published the book ( ... )
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That is delightfully creepy, and spot-on in character, as well.
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Jim publishes his newest findings in the field of Sherlock, writing them across the skin and bones and blood of victim after victim, emblazoning them on the ravaged skyline when the emotions roiling in his head are too much for a murder, and a bomb and shock and flare of brutal orange fire are needed to scream his latest anger to the skies. On those days, Professor Moriarty never has a chance.
But even Jim will not forget his roots, and so the name of Moriarty has two meanings. One is the quiet mathematician who submits elegant proofs with strange, subtle, hinting titles and hidden twists of words, all there for Sherlock to find, if only he ever looks. And how delicious, thinks the other Moriarty, Jim, when Sherlock finally discovers all the deaths that could have been prevented with a brief glance at the newest articles in the Acta Numerica, the tiny flaws, ( ... )
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That night, Jim is raving, psychopath is nothing to this level of insanity, but he is writing, numbers and symbols flowing from his pen like dark blood for a darker code. He barely spares Sebastian a glance, John even less of one, and both are tossed aside in the wake of Moriarty’s mathematical inspiration. Later, all of that can be for later, nothing matters right now but the problem ( ... )
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